gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL with `PYTHON_GIL=0` or `-X gil=0` by swtaarrs · Pull Request #116338 · python/cpython
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In free-threaded builds, running with PYTHON_GIL=0 or -X gil=0 will now disable the GIL. #116322 and #116329 track follow-up work to re-enable the GIL when loading an incompatible extension, and to...
  • Troy
    12•9 months ago

    Threading intensifies

    I’m excited about this, even if it is just baby steps. It’s been one of my very few complaints about python, having spent two decades using it.

    I’m hoping that pyside and QThreads can be made to work with noGIL. That would be super sweet. :)

  • @modeler
    7•9 months ago

    Note the caveat:

    With PYTHON_GIL=0 set, I spot-checked a few tests and small programs that don’t use threads. They all seem to run fine, and very basic threaded programs work, sometimes. Trying to run the full test suite crashes pretty quickly, in test_asyncio